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I had an odd experience Saturday evening as I chased the sunset down from a plane heading from Charlotte, NC to San Francisco, CA.

I've always been quite comfortable on planes and have always enjoyed flying, feeling sympathetic to those folks who get anxious but never personally having suffered any bit of anxiety around it.

Until Saturday.

I was sitting in my window seat looking out at the Sunset over the jet, on top of the clouds, and all of a sudden, the gravity (no pun intended) of the situation hit me.

Holy crap. I am in this machine that is flying really fast above the clouds. And everyone around me is acting like everything is normal. This is magic.

For a few moments, I was absolutely terrified.

But then my terror turned to wonder and then amazement. I was in a machine. Flying really fast. Above the clouds. And this was normal.

This experience was magic.

I didn't realize the magic of what was happening until I got yanked out of my, "I'm fine with flying" perspective and let the scary bigness of it all hit me. I didn't realize the wonder of it all until I sat in my anxiety.

The anxiety about the bigness of the situation led to my amazement and wonder about the bigness of the situation.

And when given the choice, wouldn't you much rather sit in amazement and wonder than anxiety?

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Tiffany Han

Tiffany Han is a business and branding coach for the creative entrepreneur and podcast host who helps highly-creative people raise their hands and say yes – to those businesses they’ve always wanted to have, to those ideas that feel crazy, and to themselves. As the founder of 100 Rejection Letters program and the Raise Your Hand Say Yes podcast, Tiffany helps creative entrepreneurs move beyond their comfort zones to build businesses (and lives) that are based on bold, inspired action.